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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:51PM (#33179670)
Sounds like more messaging app proliferation will lead to services like Texts.com / Matrix get even more popular.
Texts.com supports offline audio transcription for all platforms. They say it's powered by Apple's speech recognition APIs.
https://texts.com/privacy says:

> Messages, contacts, auth credentials, account information never touch Texts servers.

> Your messages are sent directly to the messaging platforms.

> All end-to-end encryption is preserved when the platform supports it.

> Texts is a client and works like the official app.

Apparently all the code runs on the user's device.

Been using https://texts.com — they preserve E2E for Signal/WhatsApp.
+ Learning confirmation and other biases
Re:GPT-2 generated satire news on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:30AM (#23203652)
This is trained on Onion articles. Which makes sense why it is amusing.

From https://www.fakefake.news/article/3ee8iz-trump-campaign-asks...:

> Pointing out that he is the candidate who will take on the establishment, President-elect Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he is asking the American people to vote for him in November. “The establishment is trying to stop me, but I’m the guy who can speak their language,” said Trump, adding that despite the “corrupt political establishment,” he has been a champion of working people for the past eight years, and that “we need a leader who can take them back.” “If they think I’m some puppet politician who can bring the country down, they’re really mistaken. I won’t be able to do that if you’re all in the same camp.” At press time, Trump had announced that he will be releasing a new book Saturday, titled If We Build A Bridge, which lays out his vision for the country.

Ask HN: How are you mitigating the risks of node modules?

It is widely known that node modules are a big security risk because of its deeply nested tree and developers tend to not install new packages just for this.From a recent HN comment [0]:> Does anyone know if there has been reliable research towards the security of the entire RN dependency tree? Seeing a stray dep there that has 1 maintainer on npm/GitHub who has been inactive for over a year...

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Re:1.1.1.1 for Families on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:26AM (#22749632)
YouTube says "Some results have been removed because Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator." when I'm on the Family DNS. How does this work? How can they know what DNS I'm using?
Re:Ask HN: How to harden my opsec / digital security? on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:05PM (#22108774)
@dang, if you see this, please delete this thread.

I've reposted my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108768

Re:Create-React-App 3.3 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:02PM (#21715893)
I've been using it for a while with CRA 3 / react-scripts 3.2

Works fine for overriding Webpack config at least.

Re:Create-React-App 3.3 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:17AM (#21712971)
You can use https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired to override anything in the default CRA config
Re:GitHub Archive Program on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:44PM (#21528598)
In addition, they provide excellent error recovery.
Reminds me of the time this lady contacted the mother of a man who sent her violent threats and got him to apologize: https://twitter.com/AGlasgowGirl/status/1188128030268575744
Re:Stripe CLI on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:46AM (#21460735)
Curious what your use case is.
Also worth checking out: https://github.com/superhuman/fast64

That is what Superhuman uses for decoding base64 in browser.

Re:Perfectly Cropped on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:33PM (#21358450)
Do you have a non-standard font size? If not, maybe OP does.
Re:Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:02AM (#21201373)
Landing page is pretty impressive. Nice work :)
You should replace Google with "big tech company" or FAANG to get more responses.
Re:Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:24AM (#20865186)
It's dead easy to spoof caller IDs. Any kid could do it.
Re:Slack Security Incident on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:48AM (#20479088)
> Were our Dutch friends sifting through our messages for four years before Slack notified us of a suspicious login?

The author might know this already but the hackers aren't Dutch. They simply bought a cheap NL server from LeaseWeb to mask their real IP.

What's HH?
Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:50PM (#19444051)
How's this different from Lambda School?
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:47AM (#19209361)
I would love to feed GPT2 with movie scripts when it's completely open source.
Re:Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:31PM (#19037781)
How so? A world without Google would have shitty search initially but would exist perfectly fine. iOS/Windows, Safari/Firefox, Apple Maps, iCloud Mail/Outlook, Vimeo already exist and soon a decent search engine would surface.
Which you cannot do on iPhones.

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